The year is starting full swing and there is already an improvement in the employment front, as I have been asked to go back to work at my old job, at the cellar, as a data capturer/harvest help. It is just for a few months, while the harvest takes place, but at least I will be getting an income again. Yay! I will be starting on Monday.
For now I am working on a new story that is something completely different. It is an end of the world type of book, but I am not sure how everything is going to work out yet, as I am still working out the kinks.
Author and blogger Jeremy Bates has a new book out called The Taste of Fear, which is just awesome. If you guys want to check it out. You can also visit him here or purchase his book here.
Book Blurb American movie star Scarlett Cox and her husband, hotel
tycoon Salvador Brazza, head to Africa to get
away and resuscitate their ailing marriage. When robbed of their money and
passports, they seek help from the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam—on the very day Al Qaeda
chooses to bomb it. In an eyeblink they’re taken hostage and whisked across the
border deep into the Congo,one of the last truly wild places left on earth. Battling terrorists, deadly wildlife and cannibalistic rebels, Scarlett and Sal must find a way to survive in a violent, primeval world. And the only person who may be able to save them is the assassin sent to kill them.
If any of you would like me to feature your book or blogfest on my blog, you can contact me at mureesdup(at)yahoo(dot)com. I would love to help.
It is a new year with all new challenges. I am definitely
taking advantage of that and leaving 2012 in the dust where it belongs. It had
been a bad year career wise as well as writing and blogging wise for me. But, I
feel more positive and excited for this year and I hope that good things will
happen. Though, 2012 was not all bad, I got to make a lot more blogging friends and I signed with an agent.
This year I am going to try very hard to let my writing
insecurities fly and just write, whether at that moment I think it is utter
garbage or not, because I am sure there will be at least a few lines that I can
salvage for another project if need be.
So, to all my fellow bloggers, writer and readers, lets make
2013 a great year that is worth remembering. No holding back.
If you would like to join the rest of us at the Insecure
Writer’s Support Group, you are welcome to do so by signing up below, or you can
stop by Alex’s blog. Hope to see you there.
The Insecure
Writers Support Group was created by the wonderful and talented author and
blogger, Alex J. Cavanaugh. You guys can visit Alex over at http://alexjcavanaugh.blogspot.com.
I will not be blogging for the rest of this year and will only return next year, unless the world ends on 21 December 2012. However, I will still be visiting your blogs and leaving comments.
I know it is a little early, but I think it is time that I wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a very prosperous New Year and that all your unanswered wishes may come true in 2013.
For those of you that are travelling during the festive time, please be safe and take care of yourselves. For those of you that will be staying home, may you and your family spend lots of quality time together and I hope that your time together will be really special too.
Until next year, take care and lots of love from my side.
I finished my latest temporary job today and I am rather smiling about it. I am now free to enjoy the rest of December, as I promised my family that I will start actively job seeking next year, as most businesses are closing for Christmas.
On a creative note, I feel a little weird. I have not had the urge to write much the past week or so, instead I have preferred editing. My creative juices are just not flowing in the writing department. I am also very happy just reading a few of the books that I have had on my bookshelf for a while now and have just not read until now. I can't explain it really, I am just feeling a little blah. I guess I am just waiting for 2013 to come.
I have recently agreed to go back to my previous place of employment (before freelancing) to help out a friend for the next two weeks, which means that I will have some money for the festive season, which is a great thing. I have managed to edit a bit after work each day, which I am thankful for.
My sister took us (the family) to the showing of Skyfall. Now what makes this so great is that it was for a specific showing and we were given the V.I.P treatment and we got a free drink and popcorn. I know it might not sound like much, but it is not everyday that we get treated so great.
The wonderfully talented Angela Felsted over at
(www.angelafelsted.com) is releasing her first novel called Chaste very soon
and to celebrate this awesome achievement, I will be posting one of my cookie
recipes, as the leading character Quinn just so happens to be a good cook.
Recipe for my mom’s awesome
Coconut Cookies
500 g Self-Raising flour
250 g Butter
5 ml Salt
5 ml Vanilla Essence
1 Cup of Sugar
1 Cup of Coconut
2 Eggs
Mix the softened butter and sugar until creamy. Then add the
eggs, vanilla extract and salt. Combine well and then add the dry ingredients.
Take a teaspoon and drop the batter unto the baking sheet, as this dough is not
the rolling out kind. Then bake the cookies in a 180°C oven for 10-15 minutes,
or until the bottom of the cookies are golden brown.
Tip: If you don’t
have self-raising flour, you can use normal flour and just at 10 ml bicarbonate
of soda to the egg mixture.
So, for the curious minds that are wondering what Chaste is
about, here you go…
When he steps into his physics class on the first day of senior year,
Quinn Walker is too exhausted from staying up all night with his
three-month-old nephew to deal with moral dilemmas. As a devout Mormon who has
vowed to wait until marriage for sex, the last thing he needs is a very hot and
very sexy Katarina Jackson as his physics partner. Regrettably, he has no
choice.
Kat feels invisible in her mansion of a home six
months after losing her older brother in a fatal car crash and will do anything
to get her parents’ attention. Since her pastor father has no love for Quinn’s
“fake” religion and her ex-boyfriend refuses to leave her alone, she makes an
impulsive bet with her friends to seduce her holier-than-thou lab partner by Christmas.
You can also check out the awesome book trailer for Chaste
here.
If you wish to purchase a copy of Chaste, then simply click on one of the links, Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
It is time for the Insecure Writer's Support Group again and
honestly, I am in a terrible state of mind all around. I am feeling really
insecure about my writing and life in general. But you know what, everyone goes through such a time in their life, which has me thinking that this is just my time to have a little instability.
I know that I have to think a few things through and make up my mind about a few other things as well. I just keep reminding myself that it will all pass, eventually.
What about you? Are you insecure about anything right now?
The Insecure
Writers Support Group was created by the wonderful and talented author and
blogger, Alex J. Cavanaugh. You guys can visit Alex over at http://alexjcavanaugh.blogspot.com.
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